The Reader's Advisor Online — A sophisticated finding tool for reader's advisor practitioners
"This ability to find what the experts think about related
titles is the real strength of The Reader's Advisor Online and
what makes it a unique tool for libraries and bookstores."
—Carol Tenopir, Library Journal
The Reader's Advisor Online
- Gives you precise results
- Is based on the advice of top reader's advisory experts
- Brings the content of the Genreflecting series together in one place
- Enables users to find read-alikes via multiple paths
- Read-Alike Quick List feature — presents read-alikes
and related reads in an easy to use list format.
- Covers over 400 genres, subgenres, and reading interests
- Includes nonfiction, links fiction and nonfiction for read-alikes
- Saves multiple titles and search results to printable lists
- Links to your OPAC
- Is updated monthly
The content in The Reader's Advisor Online is
not available elsewhere. It includes all the volumes in
Libraries Unlimited's well-known Genreflecting series,
and contains selected essays from The Readers'
Advisor's Companion and Nonfiction Readers'
Advisory, and more.
This site also aids book groups. It refines your search to
look for books recommended as suitable for book groups.
The Reader's Advisor Online provides guidance you can
trust. It is based on the advice of top reader's advisory
experts like Diane Herald, Nancy Pearl, and
Gary Niebuhr.
Multiple points of access and selective coverage
make this an extremely efficient tool for finding
related titles, and ensures that the titles you find
are most popular with readers and most likely to
be in your collection.
The Reader's Advisor Online helps you grow professionally.
Essays and notes allow you to delve into important reader’s
advisory issues and build vital readers' advisory skills.
Announcing a New Blog
The Readers Advisor Online Blog is freely available to all.
It is designed to make life easier for readers' advisors.
It will be updated twice a week.
What you will find there:
- This Week's Hottest Fiction
- Hitting the Shelves
- RSS feed button and other syndicated links
- In the News
- From the Editor
- RA Tips
- RA Online Product News
- Blogroll- links to other blogs
- List of Authors
- Archive by month
Readers comments and posts are encouraged!
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